Record ID: NMS-090A85
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon lead nummular brooch, cast pattern in relief on face, unusual arrangement for attachment on reverse comprising opposed twin lugs on outside edges with transverse perforations linked by groove with raised sides, diameter 41mm. Pattern derived from penny of Cnut (pointed helmet type), North no.787, pl.13, 1024-30. There is no other English coin with this design.
Created on: Friday 4th June 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Felixstowe', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-161F93
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval toy. Two dimensional cast lead horses head, broken across the neck, with details of bridle, reins and mane on both sides. The neck and head are stretched perhaps indicating the horse was depicted in full gallop. For very similar possibly 16th century two dimesional lead horses, and 16th - 18th century two dimensional lead coaches see Forsyth and Egan (2005, 320 - 322, no.10.7, 10.8 - 10.13 and ).
Created on: Tuesday 25th March 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 30th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-146893
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four lead balls. Diameter: 19, 13, 10 and 9mm.
Created on: Thursday 24th January 2013
Last updated: Thursday 18th June 2020
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Record ID: NMS-15C283
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four disc lead cloth seal. Blank or illegible // ..]F COMMON W[... around Arms of the Commonwealth // Portcullis surrounded by illegible text // blank. Diameter of discs 15mm. Length 31mm. 1649 - 60.
Created on: Thursday 24th January 2013
Last updated: Thursday 18th June 2020
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Record ID: NMS-7FAE53
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead cloth seal fragment. Blank // fragment of indecipherable letter, perhaps a reversed R, and therefore perhaps from a Russian seal. Diameter 20mm. Surviving fragment of second disc 10 x 13mm.
Created on: Thursday 16th January 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 7th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Taverham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-84A972
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat, pointed oval, 37mm x 24mm with (squashed) pierced lug on reverse at top of median rib flanked by stylised plant ornament in relief. Fleur-de-lis. S·SARE·HODE·CROT (Seal of Sara Hode “the clod”). Hode, or Hood, is a common surname ‘meaning maker of hoods’ (Reaney 1991, 234). Crot, which also appears as a surname Crote or Croot, is a nickname from the Middle English crut ‘lump or clod’ (ibid. 118). Thirteenth century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th September 2004
Last updated: Thursday 23rd January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Quidenham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-018666
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead cloth seal. Two discs RT / TBBM / BPRM / [SV] // NO / RWI / [C]H. Diameter 20mm. The letters on the first disc are the initial letters of the surnames of the wardens of the Norwich Weavers' Company for one year between 1650 and 1705 (Egan 1994, 46-7). The year in question is 1683 (Egan 1987, 412). An identical cloth seal has been recorded from Dunton, Norfolk (HER 51659, NMS-0F2B01).
Created on: Monday 24th March 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd July 2019
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Record ID: NMS-BEE056
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval papal bulla of Clement V (pope 1305-14). The bulla is poorly preserved, being very worn on both obverse and reverse sides. The obverse reads CLE/MENS relatively clearly, but wear and some loss at the bottom of the bulla makes it difficult to see the numeral after the :PP. Two visible vertical strokes make this most likely to be the V typical of Clement V's bulla, as Clement II (1046 - 7) used bullae of a very different design (without the SPA SPE reverse, introduced by Gregory VII, 1073-85) and there does not appear to be space for any further vertical strokes to have been lo…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd April 2014
Last updated: Thursday 21st February 2019
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Record ID: NMS-2C5B33
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead weight. Flat, rectangular, low relief on one face forming a cross with three linked circles in a diagonal line across two opposed quarters, and a pellet in each of the opposite opposed quarters. One corner missing. Measuring 14.5 x 14mm. Thickness 1.5mm. Weight 1.79g / 27.6gn / 0.06oz.
Created on: Thursday 17th December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2019
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Record ID: NMS-017135
Object type: POWDER MEASURE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead powder change cap. Flat, sub-circular top with pierced lugs and straight sides with a vertical seam. Lugs and sides now distorted. Diameter of top (without lugs) 20mm. Height 19.5mm. 17th century.
Created on: Monday 24th March 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 12th July 2017
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Record ID: NMS-A71033
Object type: ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead possible wall or ceiling mount. Six pointed star with sinuous triangular-sectioned arms all of which are now squashed and incomplete, with a casting seam and central incomplete shank on the otherwise flat reverse. Maximum surviving diameter 30mm. See NMS-382886 for a similar example. Circa 1300 - 1500.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd June 2016
Last updated: Thursday 27th April 2017
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Record ID: NMS-A848F9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of lead-alloy disc brooch. Broken across a domed centre and part of the flange around the edge, with an incomplete catch-plate on the reverse of the surviving part of the flange. The dome is decorated with two bisecting ribs forming a low relief cross. Almost all the original edge, pin and catch-plate are missing. Surviving length 20mm. Height (excluding pin-lug) 6mm. Original estimated diameter 28mm. Probably Late Saxon. Although no very close parallel has been found Late Saxon lead disc brooches are a well-known type. See for example SWYOR-939E21, LEIC-A2A4A2 and SF-120845.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd June 2016
Last updated: Thursday 27th April 2017
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Record ID: NMS-A6E04D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified and undated object. Slightly irregular circular lead sheet punched with 32 holes. Diameter 22mm. Thickness 2mm. Weight 3.8g.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd June 2016
Last updated: Thursday 27th April 2017
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Record ID: NMS-F72E08
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead ampulla. One side with Spencer (1971) type II scallop shell below pair of ribs joined by angled lines at neck, other side crowned W inside a circle with angled lines on the engled edge and pair of ribs with angled lines between at the neck. Two lugs, now squashed, at the neck. Top crimped together. The crowned W is likely to stand for Walsingham, but also could signify Virgo Virginum (Virgin of Virgins). See Spencer 1971 and Spencer 1990 for similar examples. 14th-16th century. Length 51mm. Width 30mm.
Created on: Thursday 28th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 24th November 2016
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Record ID: NMS-E00DA6
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead ampulla, bent, lugs squashed against sides. On one face a scallop shell of Spencer's (1971 and 1990) Type II, and on the other a crowned reversed S. The latter device may possibly be for Our Lady of Sudbury, a minor cult (Spencer 1971, 64). Height 54mm. Width 27mm. 14th-early 16th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 7th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Watton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-590CCA
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead pot mend, probably medieval or post-medieval. Oval on one face, irregular with no original edge on the other. The smaller face has the impression of course cloth on the surface. Measuring 23 x 30mm. Gap for missing pot 1mm.
Created on: Wednesday 28th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-5CBF67
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead ampulla, rounded base, almost straight sides, the upper edge complete an crimped together, the surface worn and abraded with only very slight traces of possible decoration, now unintelligible, on one face. The stubs of the missing lugs survive on each side. Length 48mm. Width 25.5mm. Circa 1350 - 1539.
Created on: Wednesday 28th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-166996
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval - post-medieval lead cloth seal. Four discs blank // RS within a circle // illegible within a border // blank . Diameter 11mm. Circa 16th - 18th century.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-1718A5
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval - post-medieval seal or unidentified object. Possibly a cloth seal. Lead disc with the arms of Norwich (castle above a lion) within a cabled border in low relief, with a recess around the edge separating the upper disc from a lower disc or flange from which two loops or tabs project. At least two further broken shank-like projections emanate from the edge of the upper disc. If a cloth seal then the usual arrangement of rivets and tabs connecting discs has not been used. Diameter 15mm. Circa 16th - 18th century.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-1641A2
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval - post-medieval lead cloth seal. Two of four surviving discs. Shield bearing a cross with a pellet to either side within a beaded circular border // IOC surrounded by + D ]?[ A O ]?[. Diameter 12mm. Circa 16th - 18th century.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th June 2016
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